By Laurie Baron in San Diego
(Melody: You’ve Got a Friend)
When your polling’s down,
And the cost of living is up
And nothing, nothing is going right.
Close your mind and invent things
To distract from how you’ve failed.
Even in the war you chose to fight.
You renew the Red Scare.
See communists everywhere.
You’d love to run.
To get elected again.
Ballroom, ICE, Vaccines, green Pool.
You treat the voters like fools.
MAGA is there.
But you have no friends.
If a tyrant says nice things
To stroke your big ego,
You don’t know when you’ve been deceived.
Putin is trustworthy.
So is Kim il Sung.
It’s only allies that you don’t believe.
You just lie through your teeth.
Which you know FOX will repeat.
You are sinking, sinking in polls.
NATO, Ukraine, and Spain.
Have reasons to complain.
They won’t be there
When we need friends.
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Laurie Baron, retired from San Diego State University, is a professor emeritus of history.